Definition of wire

• n. - A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
• n. - A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
• v. t. - To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
• v. t. - To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
• v. t. - To snare by means of a wire or wires.
• v. t. - To send (a message) by telegraph.
• v. i. - To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
• v. i. - To send a telegraphic message.